3. I hate waking up, getting dressed, and driving to work in the dark. But now that I have a kid, there is a major bright side to fewer hours of daylight. Lately she's been sleeping in, sometimes until 8 or even 8:45 (a new Lilahbility record!) on days when we don't have to wake her up to get her to daycare and ourselves to work.

4. Potty pooping is the best kind of pooping.

5. The massive leaps a two-year-old brain periodically takes are absolutely astounding. All of a sudden, she's engaging in imaginary play and acting out intricate scenarios between her water bottle and her fork at the dinner table.

6. When using a stand mixer, it is a very good idea to make sure that the bowl is properly secured to the base before turning it on. Otherwise you may find yourself in the aftermath of a crumble topping explosion like I did the morning of our Thanksgiving dinner.

8. When your Hubs thinks he has gallstones, this is the weekly meal plan he will create:

(Don't worry, no gallstones after all. Our diet has been slightly more varied than this as a result.)

9. My chosen career as a Speech-Language Pathologist comes with its own unique hazards. I was reminded of this one in early October: Don't lean in too close when a kid is trying really hard to make the /sh/ sound. Your face may become the unwilling recipient of excess saliva. (It's gotta go somewhere!) This is a lesson I seem to have to relearn every few years, unfortunately.

10. It will become apparent that you have kept your toddler out much too late when she starts begging for sleep and her crib on the drive home. Oops.

I, like you, also learned about the astonishing leaps a two-year-old's brain can take, overnight. We'd put Li'l D down to bed one evening and find him speaking and behaving in such different ways than the evening before . . .

If it's this astonishing from the outside, I wonder what it feels like from the inside!

@DebI love your description of it - it does seem as if many of these changed happen overnight! And wonder their little brains are so off- balance sometimes, right? They're growing exponentially! It explains a lot.

I am terrified of the whole roll of toilet paper going into the bowl. With our less than stellar low-flow toilets, it would be a disaster! Sounds like you handled it well. ;)

Also, I love how their brains are developing, I think that it's so cool to watch Q play with all of his figurines and have conversations and stuff. Let's just hope that in your case the fork and water bottle keep getting along, otherwise it might get ugly!

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I am a 30-ish Vancouver speech therapist, martial artist, blogger, and most importantly, mama to my li'l Lilahbility and our latest addition, Henry, who have already taught me so much about life and about myself, and continue to do so every day. I started this blog as a way to capture the moments as well as process my thoughts on motherhood. Narcissistic? You betcha! Honest? Always. Good for the occasional giggle? I hope so!